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Money Counts Revisiting Economic Calculation


Free Download Mario Schmidt, "Money Counts: Revisiting Economic Calculation "
English | ISBN: 1789206847 | 2020 | 142 pages | PDF | 687 KB
Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.

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On the Calculation of Volume II


Free Download On the Calculation of Volume II (On the Calculation of Volume, Book 2) by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0811237273 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 0.7 MB
Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.

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On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)


Free Download On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1) by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0811237257 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 0.9 MB
Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being "a masterpiece of its time."

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Money and Calculation Economic and Sociological Perspectives


Free Download M. Amato, "Money and Calculation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0230277772 | 2010 | 230 pages | EPUB | 364 KB
Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange. Yet, it is increasingly becoming itself an object of exchange and calculation on financial markets, which tend less to the production and exchange of real goods. The question therefore is: has the economy lost its measure?

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